heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

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Your connected phone does the heavy lifting to transcribe the text, but the glasses have a tiny projector that displays the text in green text in front of your eye. Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025 Hip-Hop legend Don Pooh’s swanky eatery, find Kaine and Rim doing the heavy lifting by their lonely. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Jan. 2025 The Bucs have hit 40 points twice while winning six of seven to get past Atlanta in the NFC South, with Mayfield doing the heavy lifting. Jack Magruder, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Here are our best one-pot meals that do the heavy lifting for you. Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for heavy lifting 

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of heavy lifting was in 1980

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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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